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npr.org — MrBabyMan, a poster to a proudly democratic Web portal called Digg, has been wildly successful in achieving high profile positions for his stories, garnering many gigantic readerships. But critics say he's stealing other people's ideas â or, worse, t

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- SallyD
"a Disney animator who lives in Los Angeles " cool, where is he at?
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- warner444
digg is such a big game for some people. Mixx is 100 times better site
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- Ionela
Again MrBabyMan?
Oh, my GOD!
Leave that man alone!
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- SilentJay74
HOLY SHIT! ANDY MADE NPR?
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- SilentJay74
@warner444 Hey Warner News Flash, MrBabyMan is on Mixx as well. Andy is a good guy and he does not deserve these allegations against him. He is honestly a good dude and a good friend.
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- kafka
Go MrBabyMan, it's your birthday-it's your birthday! Whoooop Whooooop!
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- SilentJay74
@warner444 But I do agree with you that Mixx is such a better site.
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- yoda
i got to personally ask him a couple of questions and be on the same show with him on last Saturday Night Monkey (that will be posted today)
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- yoda
look for it. i'll be sending it out.
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- SilentJay74
@jilladair GTFO
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- kafka
@jilladair
Reported your canned ass...
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- SallyD
i love npr...did somebody say linkbait?
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- yoda
@kafka huh??? uh....please tell me what is up with all that? that link seemed very intriguing and stuff....
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- kafka
@yoda
My super mixxer status must have gone to my head- I lashed out at an innocent user humbly attempting to promote their product... I must remember I'm not *actually* a deity from Mt Olympus...
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- yoda
@SilentJay74 is that all that was?....that Brickfish map thingy on there is super-sick coolness. that post was worth it to see that.....
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- yoda
@kafka it probably wasn't worth it, i thought, for a second, that she was some EVIL DIGGER trying to INFILTRATE Mixx to ATTACK MrBabyMan....see how the paranoid mind works???

are you sure it wasn't that? that would have been MUCH COOLER dude!! really! lmao
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- MrBabyMan
@SallyD I don't know why they got this wrong. I'm a film editor, not an animator.
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- SilentJay74
@yoda Then the user should have gotten his head out of his ass and posted it to Mixx not a submission thread.
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- SallyD
@MrBabyMan you DO love to share great stories! Cool.
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- SilentJay74
@MrBabyMan And badass podcaster, and baddass USTream TV Host, and guest Mashable live blogger, audio editor, should I keep going bro?
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- SilentJay74
Shit we just gave Yoda the CS medal. Dammit!
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- cGt2099
@MrBabyMan
You're a superstar, my friend
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- mortalwind
WTF was there some comments removed because I could not follow this comment thread for shit.
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- NavyCS
@MrBabyMan Keep up the great work!
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- BanMaster
@SilentJay74 "Andy is a good guy and he does not deserve these allegations against him."

They're NOT allegations though. The reposting of stories/URLs originally submitted by others has been proved many times.
However, the whole gaming and for-profit-submissions things are bull poop though. Hes just doing what any submitter does (fostering a large group of priends) in order to get stuff promoted. They, and him, should be more careful though, when posting or digging stories which are easily identifiable dupes.
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- jansie
@MrBabyMan you suck! i hate you! feel welcome yet? hehe.
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- MarkCarras
NPR? Pa-leeeze. MrBabyMan is cool because he was on Saturday Night Monkey last week. :D Skype me Yoda!
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- DerivativeRe
@BanMaster

So the submission's allegations are true according to your comment. If so,
that is a lack of ethics.
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- allaboutdatiki
Larry King on line three, Larry King on line three ...
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- BanMaster
@DerivativeRe - Took me 2 minutes to find one.

http://digg.com/environment/PHOTO_Egypt_what_s_on_the_OTHER_SIDE_of_those_Pyramids
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/The_Ancient_and_Modern_Egypt_PIC

The image in both is exactly the same:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/436684787_dccece4357_o.jpg
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- DerivativeRe
@BanMaster

So then, the "critics" are not alleging they are stating facts.

Sometimes, comments can be deceiving, as
evidenced in this thread. Sometimes people would rather
look at the world as they would like it, rather
than the way it is.
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- yoda
@BanMaster You will have to listen to the aforementioned Saturday Night Monkey if you *actually* care about this that much. MBM admits to it, but explains his reasoning for it, i know, because i asked the questions of him.

He has his reasons, but i doubt he will descent to your and DerivativeRe's lousy fucking trolling here.

but have fun being in league with the king of the trolls on Mixx.

You, sir, have lost all credibility with me.
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- yoda
@MrBabyMan maybe if they'd interview you directly, you could get a chance to tell them. i suggest you contact them and demand an interview, and i wanna be there to hear it, brother.
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- yoda
@SilentJay74 well, you know, this is important, so i don't care about that. there is a bug in MIxx now that has caused me to lose all my more recent awards anyways and i'm down to a lousy line of them...i'm usually on my 3rd line, mostly. a bunch of them just disappeared.
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- SilentJay74
@BanMaster Right but if a Digger's story dies and does not Fp and it is good content, does it not deserve to front page? Just like a musician redoing someones song. So what is the problem?
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- FitQueenB
MrBabyMan submits great stuff, so I keep on digging! and Voting. There are too many out there jealous of his talents by the sounds of it. Sucks to be them, as you can't change anything about yourself that you don't acknowledge.
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- domfosnz
Awww ... leave him alone. It ain't easy being popular.
Not that I'd know, he never friended me back at digg.
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- mortalwind
@SilentJay74 Exactly somtimes I submit an article and find that it has already been submitted 4 days ago and has gotten 0 votes, so I vote it up and share it with my freind base. Ok sometimes the submision is poorly titled and poorly described with zero tags, I have been very tempted to dupe the article I havn't as of yet dupe somthing on purpose but I can completly see why someone would. Because in the end good content is what i want to see not some some socialist utopian of mob rule. I have very little problem with a meritocracy, I mean thats kind of the concept behind supermixxers. Let the cream float to the top.
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- yoda
@mortalwind people are just jealous of MrBabyMan....it is not about points and shit like that, it's about selflessness.

i don't effen care what happens to my stories, really. once in a while, i get huffy, but it's all a cynical joke, i like to play around, but really, we need to get good stories out...especially timely political ones and news ones. MBM is wise, and i've seen no proof of any selfishness or dickishness from him, to my knowledge.

these trolls are LOSERS, bottom line.

share. love. awaken.

we are in a position to really change the world with the Web...if we don't the world is dust, and very soon. the human race must wake up or die. that is not metaphor.

selfish people are destroying the world. this has been proof of that.

"Information wants to be free."
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- dan.knows
their just jealous cuz he's so much better at being "popular" than everyone else. I say good for him :)
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- yoda
speaking of free information, does anyone know of the process towards a decentralized torrent system is going, i.e. without aggregators such as thepiratebay? i know work is being done in that direction.

Information will be free. Period.
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- yoda
@dan.knows i say good for the information that he is distributing, first and foremost.
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